Background
Prideaux was born in 1927 as James Priddy in South Bend, Indiana, the son of Lloyd Priddy, a professional photographer, and Beulah Shirey.
Prideaux was born in 1927 as James Priddy in South Bend, Indiana, the son of Lloyd Priddy, a professional photographer, and Beulah Shirey.
Wanting to become an actor, he adopted a new name and relocated to Chicago and then New York, but found his metier as a writer He wrote for magazines such as Playboy and the Ladies Home Journal and joined the Barr-Wilder-Albee Playwrights Unit, a theater workshop. He also wrote Postcards, Lemonade, and The Orphans.
Moving to television, he wrote The Secret Storm.
He received a Primetime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Television Movie for producing Mistress Delafield Wants to Marry.
In 1996, he published his memoirs Knowing Hepburn and Other Curious Experiences. He died of a stroke in West Hills, Los Angeles on November 18, 2015.